Countries
Thailand
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Thailand
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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Interesting Facts
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Lao Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Khmer Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4437
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
325
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4446
9
60
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Scripts
Thai
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Mhoro
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Masikati
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Mangwanani
Please
โปรด (Pord)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Ndineurombo
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
bye
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Isan
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Isan
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Northern Thai
Karanga
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Thai
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.85 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
20.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
40.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ภาษาไทย
chiShona
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
thaï
shona
German Name
Thailändisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Shona people
Origin
1283 CE
20th century
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tai
Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Thai
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Thai
Standard Shona
Language Position
47107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
th
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tha
sna
ISO 639 2/B
tha
sna
ISO 639 3
tha
sna
ISO 639 6
tha
sna
Glottocode
thai1261
core1255
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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